SPORTS
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By Hagh S. Fullerton, J—4
New York, Mar. 26. (#)—Ohio
State’s Ole Olson stirred up a good
argument last month when he
picked the best’ five basketball
coaches between Pittsburgh and the
Rockies (Adolph Rupp, Doc Carl-
son, Tony Hinkle, Ward Lambert
and Dutch Lonberg) .... Some-
where in Europe Lt. Max E. R.
Keiffer, a staunch upholder — of
“small college” basketball, spotted
the list and V-mailed the names of
ten he considers better... Keiffer
picks Lt. (USNR) Wilbur Stalcup,
Maryville, Mo., State; John Lance,
Pittsburg, Kan., State; Joe Hutton, |
Hamline; J ohn Miller, Murrayn,
Ky., State; Ed Diddle, Western
Kentucky; Loren Ellis, Valparaiso;
Mose J. Beichly, “Akron; Bill

 

 

Monypeny, Sue a neki
Kan.); Lt. (USNR) C Harris,
Cape Girardeau, Mo., “dias and
Henry Iba, Oklahoma A. and M.
... Lhe guys with reputations to
protect fight shy of scheduling
these ten, Keiffer maintains. —

Today’s Guest Star

Will Connolly, San Francisco
Chronicle: “For a school that was
considered the No. 1 coaching spot
of the nation, afd still is for all
we know, Notre Dame is losing
her football mentors with a rapid-
ity equalled only by Clark Shaugh-
nessy’s bouncing at new fields.”

 

Monday Matinee -

‘Wonder if. there’s anything to
the story. that the military and
naval academies have received
orders to soft-pedal publicity about
their high powered athletic teams?
. . » Hal Newhouser, the Tigers’
mound ace, broke into organized
ball by tossing a three-hitter for
Alexandria, La., against Lafayette.

 

Service Dept.

Meds Lieut. oll French,
former Cubs and Dodgers south-
paw star, sends: back ‘word that
he’ll be in there pitching after the
war. “I still need three winning
games to be able to paste 200 vic-
tories into my scrap book,” says
‘Larry. “I won’t be satisfied with
my career until-I get them.” ...
Lieut. Jack Gardner, former Kan-
sas State basketball coach now in:
charge of athletics at the San,
Diego naval air base, drops in this |
wishful line: “It could be, that a.
few of the better athletes here
will chose Kansas State for their
postwar education.” |